The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21

school, appropriation.
A lady's shawl was found Tuesda,
morning on the hill near the stone quar-
ries, which owner can have by calling a
this Office.
MIR. J. ii. Ray authorizes us to say
that he will be unable to accept the posi-
ton OF director of the Southern Mime
sofa Live Stock and Fair Association
owing TO the fact that he will be absent
from the city more or less of the time
during the summer.
There will be service of song and
bible reading combined at the Congre,
gational church next Sunday evening
1t is believed that it will prove an es.
pecially interesting and profitable oc'
casion. The choir will sing several
choice pieces. Let all attend and learn
the subject. Bring your Gospel Hymns
with you.
The Mankato Gas Light Co. have
determined to make a discount of ten
per cent to all patrons who pay their
bills at the Office of the Company on or
before the 10th day of each month. To
prompt paving consumers this will bring
gas down TO s.. % per 1000 cubic feet.
1t must be borne in mind that no reduc-
ton from past prices will be made to
those who do not comply strictly with
the requirements.
The Floral Cabinet and the american
Garden have become one, the whole to
to appear under the latter title. Thus
will not only 1.-TWO souls be made hap
py," but whole regiment of 'em. The
Floral Cabinet was good enough for any
lady's home. We were not familiar
with the Americm Garden, but it must
have been par excellence, or it never
could have mated with aught SO dainty
and desirable as Miss Floral.
Sundays blizzard was tartar. The
fall of snow Saturday night and Sunday
morning was picked up and carried into
drifts which placed an embargo upon
railroad traffic until Monday evening.
The Milwaukee road did not suffer as
badly as the other lines, and the La
Crosse train arrived in Mankato an hour
behind time Monday morning. Sunday
nights train on the Omaha laid over
here and returned to st. Paul next
morning.
If the County Commissioners had
awarded the publication of their annual
statement to paper capable of present
ing it to the public complete, it would
have given much better satisfaction to
the tax payers, even If it had cost few
dollars more. Yesterdays Register con-
tains a portion of the report, and notes
that it will be concluded next week"
The law requires that the statement shall
be published for three consecutive weeks,
and of course the publication given to a
fraction of it will not be accepted.
Mr.. C. ID. Bovee has his Palace Bar
Der Shop, opposite Tu tiles hardware
store, in operation and is prepared to
serve the public in the best possible
manner. He has only two chairs at
present but expects soon to add two
more. He will also, as soon as possible
add a suite of bath rooms, and when all
is completed he will have one of the
finest barber shops in the state. His
rooms are hastily fitted up, clean and at
tractive, and there is every reason why
he should do nice business.
Mrs. B. q. Turner, daughter of Col.
Houk, died at her home in Rush City,
this state, last night. Her remains will
arrive in Good Thunder tomorrow, and
the funeral services will be held at that
place on Sunday. Mrs. Turner was well
known in Blue Earth county, and her
large circle of friends will be greived to
learn of her sudden death, which was
caused by childbirth. The husband,
and little five year old daughter who is
now left motherless, have the deepest
sympathy of all. Deceased was "a years
of age, and most amicable and exem-
plary lady.
An effort will be made to secure for
the Southern Minnesota Live Stock and
Fair Association the same annual appro-
priation from the State legislature as is
accorded to the Rochester fair. There
is no apparent good reason why the
matter should not receive a favorable
consideration at the hands of our law
makers. The association here could be
made one of great importance and bene-
fit to the farmers of Southern Minnesota
with little State aid, and it should be
accorded without opposition. We be-
lieve it will be.
The congregation of the Catholic
church of st. John the Baptist, of this
city, were pleasantly surprised last Sun
day when the Rev. Father Prior an
nounced to them that the beautiful
chime gong, which for the first time was
sounded during the elevation of the
blessed sacrament, was a gift to the
church-donated by Charles Fay, Esq,
of st. Peter, MINI. The gong has three
chimes and was bought in Munich,
Italy. Mr.. Fay could not have given a
better legacy to be long remembered
by the present and future members of
the Congregation, nor one that would be
more highly priced.
The sixth annual statement of the
Mankato Mutual Building and Loan As
sociatiOn appears in another column.
We are pleased to note that the instItu-
ton Is growing rapidly in the number OF
its members, and consequently increas-
ing in usefulness. They have expert
enced no trouble in finding members
DESTROYS of borrowing funds-in net the
demand for money was greater 'lring
The past year than the supply. Til AS
ISOLATION may be considered as ONE OF
| Mankato's benefactors by reason Of the
good they are doing in helping and en-
couraging her people to own their own
homes and in providing a safe and pro-
| fitable place Of investment for their sur
plus savings.
| -Messrs. l.. G. M. and Geo. w.
Fletcher have purchased very hand
some family monument of Scotch
Granite, which will be placed upon their
lot in Glenwood cemetery hext fall. Mr..
j. @. A. Marsh has also contracted for
| one, and will have it set in the spring,
as so also will Mrs. F. fl. Waite and An
drew Hanna. Mr.. w. w. p. Mcconnell
purchased from the same concern fami-
| ly monument which will be erected to the
memory ofhis children buried i'm Kansas
These family memorials will all be placed